• Post-Doc Research Associate

    University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)


    Vacancy ID: PDS004627

    Position Summary/Description:

    This position will join a collaborative team of oceanographers/glaciologists at Oregon State and Tufts working to improve understanding of heat, salt, and momentum fluxes and physical processes at ice-ocean interfaces, with relevance to submarine glacier melting and other ice-ocean interactions. The position will emphasize both numerical approaches (e.g., Large Eddy Simulation, Direct Numerical Simulation, multi-scale process modeling) and laboratory wave tank experiments to explore turbulent seawater dynamics adjacent to ice. Opportunities may also exist to participate in planned field campaigns in Greenland. The postdoctoral scholar will be expected to improve on existing GPU -accelerated ocean models and develop laboratory experiments (in the Joint Fluids Lab at UNC ), analyze results, publish in peer-reviewed journals, present at scientific conferences, and contribute to collaborative proposals.

    Education and Experience:

    Familiarity with ice-ocean interaction physics or polar oceanography. Experience with high-performance computing, GPU -accelerated models (e.g., Oceananigans.jl), or advanced flow measurement techniques (e.g., PIV , LIF ). Interest in mentoring graduate/undergraduate students and proposal writing.